Tweet New York City food trucks are adding a new item to their menus: free Wi-Fi. Starting on Thursday, 30 roving restaurants in the Big Apple will be sporting virtual operator Karma’s 4G mobile hotspots, offering anyone in the vicinity 100 MB of free access. The participating trucks are run by empanadas specialist Nuchas, Andy’s Italian Ices, mobile burger flipper Frites ‘N’ Meats and coffee wagon Mudtruck. Karma is also installing…

Tweet It may not be the investment that was rumored earlier this year, but Deutsche Telekom has struck a deal with the crowdsourced Wi-Fi outfit Fon to provide coverage across Germany. This comes a month after Fon signed with a DT subsidiary in Croatia – a country, as we pointed out at the time, that DT sometimes uses as a testbed for new services that it intends to roll out…

Tweet Boingo customers with a yen to travel to Japan will now find plenty of wireless broadband available to their smartphones, tablets and laptops. The Wi-Fi aggregator on Wednesday announced a deal with NTT DoCoMo which not only gives it a huge new presence in Japan, but also increases its global hotspot count by 10 percent. In two separate but reciprocal agreements, DoCoMo’s network of 55,000 hotspots will all become…

Tweet Time Warner Cable has added a secret ingredient to its growing outdoor Wi-Fi footprint: other people’s hotspots. The cable operator is working with Boston-Tel Aviv startup WeFi to create a virtual network of millions of hotspots its customers can access for free and without ever entering a password. WeFi has developed software for the handset and network that detects, measures and tracks the signal strength and capacity of millions…

Tweet The demand for data centers just isn’t subsiding. And to serve the companies that can’t build their own data centers, there’s there has been a boom in retail co-location space around the world, according to Telegeography. The places in which this boom is happening may surprise you. While traditional data center locales such as New York and San Francisco are getting new data centers, non-traditional places such as Bangalore,…